Scientific Publications

Research Direction

My Focus

My primary interest remains the nature of consciousness and ways that we might manipulate consciousness for the betterment of the human condition. I gained extremely early-access (2017-on) to an emerging form of neuromodulation (i.e., brain stimulation) called Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU), which remains the only way to precisely target (mm-scale precision) any brain-region without-surgery, including in healthy human volunteers. As a result, much of my work thus-far has concerned using this new tool as a way to safely modulate human brain-function and the conscious experience it appears to generate–from jump-starting the recovery of consciousness in coma patients to amplifying the effects of Vipassana meditation in expert meditators.